Rose McHugh is a non-executive director with extensive board experience across public, private, and not-for-profit sectors and over 35 years commercial experience.
She is currently chair of Crawford Art Gallery and is non-executive director of Bank of America Europe (and chair of the Audit Committee) and Irish Life Group. She is also a member of the Governing Authority of UCC (and chair of the Audit & Risk Committee). She served two terms as chair of Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), was chair of Brook Foods and is a former non-executive director of Origin Enterprises Plc and Bord na Mona.
She was formerly executive director and head of corporate finance at Merrion Capital. Prior to this appointment, she was deputy CEO of SWS Group, a renewable energy and diversified services group and a Director of Taxation with EY.
She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, an Associate of the Institute of Taxation in Ireland, with an honours law degree and MBA from UCC. She is a Chartered Director with the Institute of Directors and has a Certificate in Sustainable Finance from Cambridge University.